Chakchiuma
Extinct Indigenous tribe from Mississippi / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Chakchiuma were a Native American tribe of the upper Yazoo River region of what is today the state of Mississippi.[2]
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extinct as a tribe merged into the Chickasaw[1] | |
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formerly United States (Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee) | |
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Chakchiuma | |
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Chickasaw, Choctaw[1] |
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In the late 17th century, French explorers identified the Chakchiuma as "a Chicacha nation," indicating that they were related to the Chickasaw and similar Western Muskogean speaking–tribes.[3] They likely shared a common origin as the Chickasaw and Choctaw people and merged into the Chickasaw Nation in the mid-18th century.[1]